Kelsey Reynolds

Toddlers and children beauty pageants – Risk factors for severe psychological turmoils

1. Make-up
2. Hair extensions
3. teased hair styles
4. lots of hairspray
5. Flipper or "fake teeth"
6. sophisticated costumes
7. Screaming crowds
8. weird postures
9. twitched face expression
10. the children in the beauty pageants are ages 2-10
11. usually only one goal, get the money and get the tiara and/or trophy and/or ribbon
12. children do not enter at own request
13. a female child that pay a lot of attention to her looks is prone to develop an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia
14. paranoid features occur
15. "no other girl is your friend here"
16. Judges in these pageants somehow, judge and score your child’s physical features and talents looking for things that stand out but are still related to the child’s age.
17. Mothers of these children are usually trying to live their own dreams through their young daughters
18. have no free time to invest into building healthy relationships, behaviors, attitudes or follow their own dreams.